Simrad ES80 Reference Manual page 34

Simrad ES80 Reference Manual
Procedure
1 Move the cursor to the top bar, and investigate the functions provided.
Observe that small tooltips open to identify the various functions you can use.
The ES80 top bar is located on the top of the display presentation, and stretches
from the far left to the far right side. The top bar gives you fast access to key
functionality and navigational information. It provides buttons to hide or show the
menu, to make a screen capture, to open the
context sensitive on-line help. And more important, the top bar allows you to see
when data recording is active.
Top bar overview, page 220
2 Observe the information pane "buttons" on the top bar.
The ES80 offers several information panes to provide additional and detailed data
from the ES80 presentation. The information panes are opened and closed using the
buttons on the top bar. Before you open an information pane, you must first click in
an echogram view to make it "active".
Information panes overview, page 224
3 Move the cursor to the menu system on the right side of the ES80 presentation.
The menu is located at the top of the menu structure. It offers the most
Main
common functions for efficient use of the ES80. Below the
dedicated icons are used to open the secondary menus. Select the icon one more
time to close the menu.
The ES80 menu system, page 281
4 Move the cursor to the bottom of the ES80 presentation.
The bottom bar is located at the bottom of the ES80 presentation, and stretches from
the far left to the far right side. The tabs on the bottom bar allows you to choose
channel and presentation mode. A dedicated tab provides a special view for you to
see the screen captures you have made. The bottom bar also shows you the current
colour scale, as well as the time and date.
Bottom bar description, page 282
5 Move the cursor to the echogram views in the main ES80 presentation.
The ES80 supports several different echogram types. Each echogram is shown
in a separate view in the ES80 presentation. The tabs at the bottom of the ES80
presentation allows you to choose which channels to open. You can change the
physical size any view by clicking on the view border, and then drag it to create a
larger rectangle. Note that the size of the other views will be reduced accordingly!
About the echogram views, page 255
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dialog box, and to open the
Messages
Main
menu, a set of
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